Lorraine Hansberry at home on phone

I wanted to be able to come here and speak with you on this occasion because you are young, gifted, and black…I, for one, can think of no more dynamic combination that a person might be. . . And that is why I say to you that, though it be a thrilling and marvelous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so, doubly dynamic—to be young, gifted, and black.

Lorraine Hansberry at home on phone. Photo by Gin Briggs. Gin Briggs was a staff photographer for the Village Voice. She had a small storefront studio on Christopher Street and lived upstairs from Hansberry. They became great friends, with Briggs shooting several commercial and personal photo essays of Hansberry.